Specification
- Wind turbine with adjustment of rotor blade and yaw angle
- Accessory for the open wind tunnel
- Remote learning: detailed e-learning course on the basics of wind power accessible online
- Gearless wind turbine with 3-blade rotor
- Variable speed generator system
- Power regulation by means of rotor blade pitching
- Interchangeable rotor blades with different shapes
- Option to investigate your own rotor blades (3d printing)
- Wind velocity, rotor speed and generated current are recorded by sensors
- Transparent protective cover for safe operation
Features
- Wind turbine with variable speed
- Adjustable rotor blade and yaw angle
- Determine the power coefficient tip-speed ratio characteristic diagram
- Network capability: observe, acquire, analyse experiments via customer’s own network
Technical Data
- Wind turbine
- Rotor Ø: 0,3m
- Number of rotor blades: 3
- Rated electrical power: approx. 6W
- Rated wind velocity: 10m/s
- Rated speed: 2546min-1
- Rated voltage: 12V
- Rated current: 2,02A
- Rotor blades
- 3x straight rotor blade profile
- 3x optimised rotor blade profile
Measuring ranges
- Wind velocity: 0,5…20m/s
- Speed: 0…10000min-1
- Current: ±2,02A
- 230V, 50Hz, 1 phase, 230V, 60Hz, 1 phase
- 120V, 60Hz, 1 phase, UL/CSA optional
Learning objectives/experiments
- Conversion of kinetic energy into electrical energy
- Power adjustment by means of
- Speed adjustment
- Rotor blade adjustment
- Behaviour in the case of oblique flow
- Recording of characteristic diagrams
- Determination of the power coefficient
- As a function of the tip-speed ratio and rotor blade adjustment angle
- As a function of the tip-speed ratio and yaw angle
- Comparison of different rotor blade shapes
- Multi-media online course on the fundamentals of wind power
- Learning independent of time and place
- Access via Internet browser
- Check through targeted review of the learning objectives
